Blockchain Technology for Lifelong Learning: Tracking and Verifying Skills and Competencies
Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The decentralized and immutability characteristic of blockchain plays a critical role in introducing a systemic change beyond the financial industry. The lifelong learning, in its turn, opens new opportunities to write and verify or identify the competencies. The way the field of labor market is evolving is rather fast, yet education is not keeping up with it, so the old credentialing needs renewal so that it would not become outdated. This paper expounds on the fact that application of blockchain will assist in creation of a reliable and unveiled learner-centric life-long learning atmosphere. Traditional education is anchored on predetermined studies and diplomas. It lacks skills in most cases learnt in the informal on-the-job. People can resolve this issue by applying such skills as digital encasings in a distributed registry on a blockchain, which can adequately verify without modifying records. This approach helps in overcoming the mismatch by tokenizing the credentials on a distributed ledger that helps in stringent verification while maintaining the immutability of the data.
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7203711535